New Yorker I saw that picture and I imagined how the only protection I currently have falls into "slight", which probably would have me end up with radiation sickness at the very least, and considering my closeness to the city, probably worse than that.
The thing is the better levels of protection in that picture show being under the ground level, which is almost impossible in Houston. We don't have cellars or basements here.
I would like to find out how to build a shelter that makes up for that problem. If I know how then I can start saving for the materials.
New Yorker I saw that picture and I imagined how the only protection I currently have falls into "slight", which probably would have me end up with radiation sickness at the very least,
New Yorker, you could be a life saver, literally! :) I'm going to try that out right now
Well apparently if Downtown Houston gets hit with the equivalent of "Tsar Bomba" I'm toast.
New Yorker, you could be a life saver, literally! :) I'm going to try that out right now
Well apparently if Downtown Houston gets hit with the equivalent of "Tsar Bomba" I'm toast.
I wouldn't worry too much about islamic terrorists setting off an airborne 50 mt nuke.
New Yorker, you could be a life saver, literally! :) I'm going to try that out right now
Well apparently if Downtown Houston gets hit with the equivalent of "Tsar Bomba" I'm toast.
I wouldn't worry too much about islamic terrorists setting off an airborne 50 mt nuke.
New Yorker, you could be a life saver, literally! :) I'm going to try that out right now
Well apparently if Downtown Houston gets hit with the equivalent of "Tsar Bomba" I'm toast.
I wouldn't worry too much about islamic terrorists setting off an airborne 50 mt nuke.
Have you tried the asteroid? :::D
I think there are iodine tablets that you can get, to put in the water, too.
Here is a link to a site that has more info:
Please be aware this website is Messianic, but Im not trying to proseletyze at all, he has good information about survival.
http://www.thegoldenreport.com/specialinterest.asp (http://www.thegoldenreport.com/specialinterest.asp)
So a huge submarine with thick outer cladding of Lead can be one of the answers, as it may neither be effected by thermal shock, pressure wave, radiation nor by global sea rising if any and may also be safer from the ensuing tsunamis in case.
So a huge submarine with thick outer cladding of Lead can be one of the answers, as it may neither be effected by thermal shock, pressure wave, radiation nor by global sea rising if any and may also be safer from the ensuing tsunamis in case.
Good idea now how would I ever afford a huge submarine? ;D
... What is a sanitary, realistic way of disposing of solid and liquid human waste that won't cause illness to those inside or outside the shelter? I'd like to learn what the standard advice for what this is. I have no survival training at all and that's why I'm so ignorant about this...
In some cases the fear of nuclear war may be more damaging than the nuclear war itself. Fears shall be kept minimum and limited only to the respective religious guidelines.
Thanks New Yorker. I'll save that link
Thanks New Yorker that site does have better prices. Even if I don't buy anything right now, I can start putting money aside for just that purpose, and deciding how to put my emergency kit together. I worry a lot sometimes about the food supply becoming contaminated so having some MREs on hand in a situation like that would be good.
Massuh thanks for all the good advice and information!
Hannah, I was thinking about Noah too, and how people were desperate to get into the ark, but it was too late.
Rubystars: "I'd be curious what the Jewish perspective is about Bible prophecies that could possibly come true soon."
Rubystars, when Jesus's disciples asked him to tell them of what to expect for the End Times, his answer was a verbatim reiteration of the prophecies of the Jewish Prophets of the "Tanach ".
In other words, the Christians whole concept of End Times is borrowed hook, line, and sinker from the Jews.
The Battle of Gog and Magog
By Naftali Silberberg
The prophet Ezekiel (chapters 38-39) describes a climactic battle that will be instigated by Gog and/of Magog, and will be waged against Israel and G‑d. The defeat of Gog and Magog will precipitate the Messianic Redemption. It is difficult to dwell on this topic because it is so shrouded in mystery. We are uncertain as to the identity of Gog and Magog, whether Gog and Magog are the names of nations or individuals, whether this battle will be a physical or spiritual battle, and even whether it has already occurred or not.
Some say that Elijah will arrive before the war of Gog and Magog, while others say that he will arrive three days prior to the revelation of Moshiach.
According to tradition, the central personality in this war is Moshiach ben Yosef—Moshiach of the tribe of Joseph. Jewish tradition speaks of two redeemers, each one called Moshiach. Both are involved in ushering in the Messianic Era. They are Moshiach ben David and Moshiach ben Yosef. (The unqualified term "Moshiach," however, belongs exclusively to Moshiach ben David, the ultimate redeemer.)
Moshiach ben Yosef will be killed in the war against Gog and Magog. Again, it is unclear whether the death will be in physical battle, or as a result of the spiritual battles which he will wage against the forces of evil. Either way, the prophet Zechariah (12:10) describes the national mourning that will follow his death.
Apparently, though, the death of Moshiach ben Yosef is not inevitable. The master-kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria, known as the Arizal, said that when saying in the Amidah the words, "speedily establish the throne of Your servant David," one should beseech G‑d that Moshiach ben Yosef should not die in the course of his struggles.
According to certain sources, Moshiach be Yosef will serve as Moshiach ben David's viceroy. Thus finally bringing to an end the schism between the northern Ten Tribes, which were ruled by Joseph's descendants, and the Kingdom of Judea, which was ruled by the Davidic dynasty.
From: Jim in Charlotte, NC
Dear Rabbi,
Is this the end of the world?
Dear Jim,
Is what the end of the world?
A principle of Jewish faith is the belief in "mashiach," a messianic era in which the world reaches a state of tikun and perfection. Rather than a twisted gnarl of meaninglessness, history is a meaningful yet misunderstood process approaching ever closer to its perfection.
This revolutionary idea is the gift to mankind from the Jew. The words emblazoned on the United Nations building, "They will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore," is the vision of a fifth century B.C.E. Sabbath-observant, kashrut-observant Jew, Isaiah. He lived Israel. He said it in Hebrew.
This war-less world will be "at the end of days" (Isaiah 2:4) when the nations will realize that Judaism and the Torah are true and that the Jews are chosen to convey the Torah's message to the world. Everyone will look to Jerusalem and the Jews for direction; all war will cease because everyone will submit to Jewish sovereignty under the rulership of a benevolent, enlightened monarch, the mashiach.
Does this look like it's about to happen?
Still, the great turmoil, mass destruction and the "War of Gog and Magog" which are to precede the great era of peace have all been predicted in our sources; according to prophecies in our Bible and Rabbinic writings, the nations will wage war against each other and against Jerusalem, and the descendants of Ishmael will wage war against all the other nations of the world.
Does this look like it's about to happen?
The great Sage Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, known as the "Chafetz Chaim," said that "Gog and Magog" would be a three-stage process, stage one of which was the first World War. He predicted that another war even more devastating would follow in about 25 years (WWII) and said that this war would be stage two, after which there would eventually come a third war.
So, on the one hand, when we look at the horizon, we definitely don't see a peace-filled utopia anywhere out there. On the other hand, Jewish tradition tells us that it is there, and that each day brings us one day closer to it. And just as one hour and a half on September 11th seemed to change the whole world for the worse, so too can the world ever so quickly change for the infinitely better.
Isaiah 2:4
Shemot Rabba 1
Zecharia 14
Ezekiel 38
Zohar Chadash Shir Hashirim 10
Lev Eliyahu Shemot p172
Chafetz Chaim story related by Rabbi Shimon Schwab, zatzal, who witnessed the incident
http://www.shemayisrael.com/parsha/orchards/archives/vaera62.htm
For the those of you who are two weeks ahead of the rest of us, in Beshalach, Pharaoh is going to be told the Jews are wandering aimlessly in the desert and are trapped at the edge of the sea and Pharaoh’s heart will harden one more time and he’ll round up 600 chariots and pursue Israel. Where in the Nile did he find animals to pull those chariots? From the G-d fearing people! These people get credit for their fear of G-d?
When Pharaoh asks Moshe to stop the Barad Moshe says (9:29), “When I leave the city I shall spread out my hands to Hashem.” The Ramban says to end the first 6 plagues Moshe prayed from his house. This time he wanted to spread out his hands to Hashem so he went out of the city. Why suddenly such a dramatic change in praying to Hashem?
To begin to understand the answers to all these questions we need to understand a remarkable Midrash on the words (9:33), “The thunder ceased and the hail and rain did not reach the earth.” The Midrash says the hail is yet suspended mid air and will fall on Gog and Magog in the days of the Mashiach. In other words, the hail and rain did not stop by its heavenly production ceasing and what was already produced fell to the ground. Every hailstone ceased to exist [from our physical realm] in its place. The Midrash is telling us that when the time is right every single stone will reappear and undoubtedly pummel Gog and Magog as were pummeled the people and livestock of Egypt 3313 years ago. That’s gotta hurt.
The 38th and 39th chapters of Yechezkel foretell the inevitable battle between Gog, of the land of Magog, alongside a multitude of other nations, and Israel. A war that will be fought in the land of Israel and whose conclusion will be the end of all the enemies of Israel and a heralding of the Messianic era.
Holy writings of recent Sages say the battle will be over Jerusalem. However the verses will be physically manifest, there exists a deeper meaning to the words. If the conclusion of the war will be the world’s awareness of Hashem and the onset of the Messianic era, then the war is regarding just that. Not only is it a war of swords and arrows, it is also a war of words. Words of denial and heresy against Hashem and against His anointed one. Enemies of Israel don’t only raise their fists against Israel. They also raise doubts in the minds and hearts of Israel. As it is written in Psalms 2:1-2 (which Rashi says alludes to the war to end all wars), “Why do nations gather and regimes talk in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the princes conspire secretly against Hashem and against His anointed one.”
Getting back to the parsha, commentaries discuss how the 10 plagues correlate to the 10 sfiros- spiritual spheres or realms which envelope the world. In one sense the sfiros are like veils masking Hashems awesome presence, which allows us and the universe to exist. The first utterance of creation created the first, outermost veil. The second utterance created the next veil in. By the 10th utterance the world and all its contents were in place and we were in position to make a choice. Is the world a cosmic glitch or is their a Stage Designer behind the scenes waiting to reveal Himself?
To safeguard against any such eventualities, actually Tunguska-1000 should be liberally and profusely applied on all muslamic cities.
At least for another 1000 years nobody is going to understand as to who did it and how and why.
;D :laugh: :::D